Thanks to everyone who helps this story be- from World of Nightmares to all of my readers and reviewers. Note: this chapter focuses a bit more on BB's feelings for Raven, and y'all were asking for fluff, but I don't really do that, but this is a bit more about his feelings are developing for her, so this is probably as close as this story will veer to the dangerous road of fluff… so, enjoy. The sequel will probably be a bit more fluffy, but telling y'all why would give away the ending of this one! So, enjoy, and for you fluff-seekers, well, you'll get a teeny tiny bit of it here… for you fluff-haters, umm… its really not real fluff, so… umm, well, I'm just confusing myself here, so on with the chapter!

Chapter Twelve: You Can't Kill the Immortals!

Shadow and Nightmare teleported to the Financial District at just the moment that Beast Boy screamed her name again.

"RAVEN!" he screamed with such intensity that (if he had been someone who had cared about their voice, such as a singer) he could have felt the damage to it. But he didn't seem to even realize what he was doing.

Suddenly, Lagnevar's telepathic minion came up behind him. He could hear her malicious voice in his head, her thoughts disrupting his…

Doesss it hurt…knowing that the one you cared about most will never know? Her eyes narrowed as she grinned wickedly.

He turned to face her, but she kept up the mind games… her mind-reading had led her to his weakness: his friends, and how deeply he cared for them. Most particularly the one with purple hair and eyes…

You're a bloody idiot…she said, her voice inside his head again… you hesitated, and you missed your chance. She's gone now… ha-ha…

He could hardly take this…

And he lost it.

He transformed into the Beast, and charged at her.

But she said one more thing, one thing that made him become a human again, and sink to his knees in anguish, as waves of pain washed over him.

Doess it hurt… that all of the ones you have ever loved have died? Does it hurt… that hse hated you?

She was still grinning in that horrid way, until…

A giant black claw came up from the ground and wrapped around her in a painful-looking grip. It pulled her down, and she disappeared just before she was completely immersed in the ground, probably re-aligning herself into Lagnevar…

A giant bird came up from the depths of the earth and materialized into Raven. There were a few scratches and cuts on her face, as well as a small burn hole in her cloak, but other than that, she looked completely unharmed.

"You think that's all it would take to beat me?" she said, although BB wasn't quite sure who she was talking to. He didn't really care though, because since the claw had appeared, he had been inwardly rejoicing.

For a split second, he could have sworn that she smiled at him. But the next moment he was sure that he had imagined it, because she looked as she usually did while in battle- alert and emotionless. But at the same time, she looked really nice. He was watching her, gazing into her eyes, until a voice brought him back to earth with an unpleasant bump.

"Um… are you OK? You look like you got hypnotized again," Raven said quietly.

"Uhhh…" he shook his head (as well as himself mentally) and laughed nervously. "Are you OK?"

"Yes…"

"C'MON! I NEED BACKUP OVER HERE!" yelled Robin suddenly, ending the moment the two had briefly shared.

"Well, that's what we're here for, innit?" said Shadow, rushing forward to help Robin fight the Generator.

Finally, Robin was able to figure out what his power was.

"Whatever he imagines becomes real!" Robin yelled to the rest of the heroes.

"Well, I guess that even if you're guessing, you're bound to get lucky every now and then!" the Generator yelled.

Suddenly, it seemed that Nightmare had a plan. She yelled something in an un-identifiable tongue to Shadow, who grinned and nodded. S motioned for the rest of the Titans to back away, and Robin nodded to the other Titans. She should at least get a chance to prove herself…

So she walked up to the Generator as if he were a harmless classmate. Robin's eyes widened, and he pulled out a few birdarangs (AN: is that how that's spelled?), and held them at the ready… just in case she needed backup.

"Soo…" she started. It was clear that she had something up her sleeve. Nightmare walked up and joined her.

The two glanced at each other, and Raven figured out what was going on.

"They're communicating telepathically. One of them must have that ability," she said in a low voice.

"Can you break into what their brainwaves?" Robin said out of the side of his mouth back.

"I can try…"

Suddenly, all of the Titans could hear exactly what the two of them were saying… erm, thinking. However, the Titans couldn't figure out who was talking, so they could just hear the conversation.

…we finish him off like that…one train of thought started.

'K, the other one finished.

"Soo…" Shadow said again, now using her real voice. "You must have to have a really big imagination to be able to use this power successfully…"

"Can you make anything?" Nightmare asked.

"Yeah," said the Generator, his voice becoming rather boastful. "Anything I can think of."

"Anything?" the two girls said simultaneously.

"Yes."

"Are you sure? 'Cause a lot of people think that they can do anything… and they usually end up being wrong," said Nightmare in a rather accusatory tone.

"Can we at least see what you can do?" said Shadow, with the polite air of a curious student.

"OK," he said.

"Can you create… a flyswatter so good that it swats flies on its own?" said Nightmare. She clearly had a large imagination of her own.

A large flyswatter appeared, and started swatting flies on its own accord.

"COOL!" Nightmare yelled.

"Ok… my turn…" Shadow began. "Can you make something that can keep Lagnevar from unleashing her clones?"

"Of course!" he said, creating a weird helmet-thing, as well as a special looking pair of handcuffs.

"Well, there's no way to tell if these things actually work," said Nightmare disdainfully, nudging them with her toe, as if they weren't worthy of her.

"Of course there's a way to test them! Try them on for size, Lagnevar!" he shouted.

"I'll do it!" Shadow volunteered. She picked them up, and walked over to Lagnevar, and started putting the helmet on her head.

"While Shadow's doing that, why don't you do one more thing. If you do this, I'll definitely believe you!" Nightmare said knowingly.

"Ok… just this one last thing, then…"

She whispered in his ear exactly what she wanted him to do, and a smirk spread over his face.

"Well, that's completely below me! There's no way I can't do that!" he said smugly.

"Prove it," said Nightmare.

He smirked again, and in a flash, a strange-looking helmet appeared at his feet. It had antennae sticking out of it. He picked it up, and held it out for her to see.

"So," she said, disdainful again. "That could be any random helmet. Prove to me that it works."

"Fine," he said exasperatedly. "But this is absolutely the last one."

"Ok, that's fine with me," she said coolly.

He put the helmet on, and a metal strap locked underneath his head. The antennae glowed, and then he smirked again.

"See? I told you that it would be completely simple to make a helmet that I can't get off and keeps me from using my powers! Now I showed you, so get it off me!"

"Y'know what? I don't really feel like doing that," said Nightmare nonchalantly.
"What do you mean?" he said, his voice starting to sound just a bit nervous.

"Oh, look, here comes Shadow and Lagnevar…" said Nightmare, ignoring him.

Shadow and Lagnevar walked up, the latter of the two looking grumpy because of the helmet and handcuffs.

"Ok, now will you let us out?" said Lagnevar hopefully. "This thingy is messing up my totally awesome hair."

"Well, as I just told Mr. Idiot here, I'm not really feeling like letting you two go right now." said Nightmare, now grinning.

"W-what do you mean by that?" stuttered Lagnevar.

"Well, it means that the two of you have a one-way ticket to jail!" said Shadow, laughing.

The police showed up a few minutes later. Lagnevar and the Generator had been bickering the entire time.

But just as they were getting into the police car, Robin walked up to them and asked them a question.

"What was that message that you wanted to deliver, anyway?" he asked curiously to Lagnevar.

"Tell them-" she jerked her head in Shadow and Nightmare's general direction- "that if they join the Titans, Shadow is as good as dead."

At this point, Shadow walked over and laughed. "You can tell him right back that he should know by now that it's impossible to kill immortals!" she said with a laugh as the car pulled off.